BA/BS in Communication and Media Studies

The Communication Studies major leads to a Bachelor of Arts and focuses on how people create, send and interpret messages. Students work on persuasive writing and speaking while also learning to read the media environments that shape public life. Coursework begins with oral communication and composition alongside the university core, then builds toward upper-level communication classes. The program is one of four majors in the Department of Communication, the others being advertising, electronic media and public relations, and students are asked to declare a departmental major by the end of their first year. Graduates have gone on to roles such as content creation for an athletics department and running an arts company, and the College of Arts and Sciences frames the degree within a Jesuit liberal arts education.